How to Make a Kickroll

The first thing you can do is change the pitch. That's really obvious. But based on the sound you want, change the pitching method too. Auto is one sound. Switch it to Stretch and you get another type of sound. Each pitch method has its own characteristic sound, so play around with each.

Then there's the multiplicator time stretch. I make it longer when I only want the tok of the kick at one point of the kick roll, or shorter for a really quick one. Combine it with the pitch and you can do so many things.

This knob here, pogo, is really really important. You can make really gated kicks with it. This is huge.

Boost is just clip distortion and the EQ is post-processing, so I only use those a little bit. Take these four, the pogo, the pitch, the time stretch and the pitching method, and you basically have everything you need.

This is also really important. If you create a kick roll, click on the clip and click Make unique. It duplicates the sample, so you can put effects on this one without changing the others.

Then I double click it and create an automation clip of the volume. That's a funny effect. Make unique again for a reverse kick, then one pitched up three and one pitched down three.